How Old is That Star? Ask a Computer

1 year ago

A new machine learning technique could make it much easier to estimate the age of stellar populations.

Celebrate a Year of JWST With This Ludicrous Image of Rho Ophiuchi

1 year ago

It's been a year since JWST began its operations, so the people behind the telescope released a stunning new image…

After 63 Days of Silence, NASA Has Restored Communications with the Mars Helicopter

1 year ago

One of the most exciting success stories we've been able to report on repeatedly here at UT is that of…

Soar Past Thousands of Galaxies in the Early Universe in Thrilling 3D

1 year ago

Want to visit the most distant galaxy in the early Universe? Now you can via a fantastic visualization created from…

Magnetar Glitches, Fast Radio Bursts, And…Asteroids???

1 year ago

Recently astronomers have been able to associate two seemingly unrelated phenomena: an explosive event known as a fast radio burst…

Titanium Clouds Make This Exoplanet Shine Like a Mirror

1 year ago

ESA's Cheops mission has been studying an ultra-hot exoplanet around a nearby star and discovered its metallic clouds reflect about…

Dynamical Dark Energy Might Explain Strange 21-cm Signal

1 year ago

Dark energy may evolve in time, and it may even connect through a new force of nature with dark matter.…

The Biggest Telescope in the World is Half Built

1 year ago

The European Southern Observatory continues to build the largest telescope in the world, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Construction of…

Wind Direction on Mars Changed Abruptly About 400,000 Years Ago

1 year ago

China's Zhurong rover landed in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars, a vast plain in the northern hemisphere. Dunes surround…

Want to Find Colliding Black Holes? Check the Disks Around Quasars

1 year ago

The universe is awash in gravitational waves. The collisions of massive objects such as black holes and neutron stars generate…